Members roles that help to build and maintain a cohesive team
What is social roles?
100
Member who is skilled at making constructive suggestions about the options that the team has at a given time.
Who is the direction suggester?
100
Member who is skilled at stimulating all members of the group to contribute to the group's effort
Who is the participation encourager?
100
Member who is pessimistic and does not trust others.
Who is the cynic?
100
A set of expectations associated with a particular responsibility.
What is a role?
200
The goal of getting the job done.
What is task goal?
200
Member who is skilled at encouraging others to direct their energy to completing the task at hand.
Who is the group motivator?
200
Member who uses communication skills to build good relationships among members of the team.
Who is the communication facilitator?
200
Member who does an excessive amount of work, offers solutions prematurely, and makes decisions independently in order to save the group from failure.
Who is the rescuer?
200
The distinctive skills that characterize each of the six task roles
What are task skills?
300
The distinctive skills that characterize each of the six social roles.
What is social skills?
300
Member who is skilled at sharing his ideas about team tasks with other team members.
Who is the idea sharer?
300
Member who is skilled at using the best conflict management strategies to assist members in dealing with the inevitable conflicts that arise between and among members of a group.
Who is the conflict mediator?
300
Member who takes the group away from its task using a variety of techniques
Who is the distracter?
300
Member who does not contribute to the group's effort but expects to benefit from the group's work.
Who is the free rider?
400
The member role that enables a group to get a task done.
What is task roles?
400
Member who is skilled at ensuring that the group has a common understanding of an issue or task.
Who is the comprehension checker?
400
Member who is skilled at noting the emotional interactions among members as the group goes about its work.
Who is the process observer?
400
Member who intimidates other group members, makes negative judgements about them, and seeks unhealthy confrontation.
Who is the aggressor?
400
Member who is skilled at asking others what they think about a given task.
Who is the idea seeker?
500
The goal of building good relationships among group members.
What is social goal?
500
Member who gets the group to stop and reflect on the progress being made.
Who is the progress summarizer?
500
Member who is skilled at taking steps to reduce the emotional tension that groups inevitably experience.
Who is the stress reliever?
500
Member who takes on excessive amounts of work to satisfy personal needs, denying the other members the opportunity to make their own contributions.
Who is the dominator?
500
Member who is skilled at showing support for others when they make contribution to the work of the team.